Good Day!

Welcome aboard!

Looks like a nice project. A few bits of info for ya...

The quarter louvres shouldn't be a big deal. Still somewhat reasonably priced and available. The rear bumper may be a bit of a bear to dig up. Your best options would be: 1) Find a good used one, and possibly pay through the nose for it, 2) fiberglass reproduction, or 3) fabricate a replacement steel support and hope that the bumper cover can be made to fit and look right. The King Cobra airdam like in the second pic you posted? Ouch! I've seen JUST the airdam sell for anywhere between $450 and $1600!

The easiest swap if you want EFI and 5-speed would be to buy a later-model Fox Mustang and swap the engine, tranny, and wiring harness as a unit. You'll need to keep some parts from the original engine (like the oilpan/pickup tube), but the later 5.0 is basically the same block. Another option would be to just build the engine that's in it now. Sure, its stock output was rather pitiful, but the torque was still far better than most (but not ALL) V6's, and the same hop-up parts that bolt onto the earlier 302 bolt onto the II 302 just as easily (with some exceptions, like headers)

4.6? Yeah, it CAN be (and has been) done, but it requires a LOT of "making stuff fit" and would also require ditching the brake booster. Lots of go=not much stop is a bit of a scary mix...

Wherabouts are you located?

Well, when I first put my location in, I was referring to Burnaby (1 in 7's a grow op...), but I moved to Newton last fall

I spend a fair bit of my spare time over at Forgottenpony's shop in Poco

What part of the Island? My mom lives in Port Hardy.

If you want to go with the 5.0/T5, I'd look for either a recent write-off or a rustbucket runner. That way you KNOW you have a complete donor, and there's no surprises when you start fitting it together and find missing bits...

Check out the fiberglass airdam Tony (Forgottenpony) posted on the other site from the car show. Apparently, the guy will reproduce them.

On the suspension, I think the rubber leafspring insulators are like V8 engine mounts. Best you can hope for is to find a decent used set, fabricate replacements, or delete them and modify as needed.

Definitely try to make it down to the coast for the show in June, man. Tony's hosting a BBQ the day before, as a kind of meet & greet for the II owners. His shop is right across the street from where the show is held.

Duncan's more a suburb of that Nanaimo town, eh? I'd like to move to that area before I retire. I'll probably end up more remote, though, up near Port McNeil.

Yeah, the one where he posted the fastback drag II with the pink stripes, his wife all cuddled up to Chip Foose, and the coupe with the airdam. I can't remember which thread, but it was recent...

Last year's show only had I think three II's, but Tony posted a video in his "sounds of summer" thread. In the video, you can see part of the fence near his shop

For this year, we're muscling in on the action a bit more, just to remind the rest of . the Mustang crowd that we exist, despite them and the hotrod butchers :devil:There should be more than a handful of .net members showing up, so it would make a great way to get to know some of us. There's a few I've been looking forward to meeting myself.

Well, I've been told that I should be inheriting a building lot in Sointula one day. I can't imagine EVER dealing with gridlock there, eh? At the moment, I deal with a commute Newton to Annacis Island to Burnaby and back every day

I'll be over at Tony's this evening, so I'll find out which thread he posted the pic in...